GREEN BAY - The Green Bay Packers have not bid to host an NFL draft, but will decide soon whether to try for 2022 or a later year.

The NFL is expected to award the draft to two cities this week during its spring meeting in Key Biscayne, Florida. Albert Breer at SI.com reported the NFL could award the sites for the 2021 and 2023 drafts Wednesday.

Apparently, there is no bid for 2022, but that doesn't rule out the league awarding that as well. It has bids from multiple teams that did not get recent awards and could turn to one of those sites. Teams that bid on hosting in 2019 and 2020 but were not selected include Cleveland, Denver, Detroit, Houston and Kansas City, Breer said.

The 2020 draft will be in Las Vegas.

Fans watch the main stage ahead of the first round of the NFL draft on April 25 in Nashville, Tenn.(Photo: The Associated Press)

The Packers could choose to bid for 2024, or later, instead of 2022. The team notified the NFL it is interested in hosting, the first step in the process. The league normally sends information to the teams in July and bids are submitted in August, said Aaron Popkey, Packers director of public affairs. This would be the year to bid for 2022 if it remains open after Wednesday.

A critical piece to Green Bay hosting the draft is completion of the new expo hall that will replace the Brown County Veterans Memorial Arena and Shopko Hall, across Oneida Street from Lambeau Field. Demolition of those buildings will begin this week and completion of the new hall is expected in early 2021.

"That's definitely a key piece," said Brad Toll, president of the Greater Green Bay Convention & Visitors Bureau. "Especially in April in Green Bay. There are some things that should really be indoors. There would still obviously be an outdoor component."

Another important element is the Packers' Titletown District, which would be nearer completion in 2024 than in 2022.

"We know we'll have better pieces in later years. 2024 and beyond become better possibilities as you consider further development of Titletown," Popkey said. "We know that will be a key component of developing a campus to set up a main footprint. Downtown will be a component, too."

The NFL draft is not Super Bowl-level big, but has been growing since the league moved it out of New York in 2015. Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas and Nashville have hosted.

It would be a big event for Green Bay that would require the involvement of the Packers, the Greater Green Bay Convention & Visitors Bureau, municipalities, law enforcement, hotels, restaurants and more.

The Packers and convention bureau sent representatives to the drafts in Philadelphia and Nashville to see those events firsthand.

The NFL said 600,000 people attended April's draft in Nashville, far eclipsing the previous record of 250,000 in 2017 in Philadelphia. With 47.5 million viewers over three days, it was the highest-rated and most-watched draft ever.

Toll said the 600,000 figure is over three days and double- or triple-counts some attendees who went each day.